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From the back of the plane, the sick girl's plastic tube is hanging from the right side of the plane, in close shots it is right at the middle of her seat. See more...

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Airplane (1980) - 13 trivia entries

Directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Julie Hagerty, Leslie Nielsen, Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Patterson, Peter Graves, Robert Hays, Robert Stack (add more)

Genres: Comedy, Romance

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Deliberate joke, but not one everyone immediately picks up on: Throughout the entire movie when the outside of the plane is shown the sound heard is one of a propeller driven aircraft, yet the one pictured is a jet.

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At the end, the plane hits a radio station antenna. The radio station is WZAZ. That's because this was a Zucker Abrams Zucker movie.

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Towards the end of the credits, there is a paragraph that states something like, "This film may not be copyrighted in any way without written permission. SO THERE."

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One of the jobs in the end credits is magic consultant.

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Otto the autopilot resided in Jerry Zucker's garage after making the movie, but by 1997 had disintegrated and was thrown out.

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The Zuckers' mother makes a cameo as the woman in the lavatory who is trying to put on makeup as the plane gets jolted around.

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After the end credits, there is a scene where you see the taxi cab, still waiting at the airport.

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One of the special thanks in the end credits is Argon Oil Company, a fictional company in another ZAZ movie Kentucky Fried Movie. Argon is actually an elemental gas.

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Director Jim Abrahams has two roles in this movie. The first role was that of the bicycle rider that yells back at Kramer after Kramer hits him on the road. He also plays a role as a solicitor at the airport. He is the one who pauses after seeing how Kramer is treating the other solictors.

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The credits lists "generally in charge of a lot of things" as one of the job titles.

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Charles Dickens' name and his book "A Tale Of Two Cities" appears in the end credits.

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Some of the characters names like Steve McCroskey and Rex Cramer were derived from characters in ZAZ's The Kentucky Fried Movie.

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David and Jerry Zucker have cameo roles as ground crewmen, who accidentally cause a jumbo jet to crash into an airport terminal.

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